Quotes About Hopelessness

felt stuck with a suffocating sense of wanting to feel better but not knowing how. My brain has such a hard time overriding my heart sometimes. One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

Was there anything more cruel than to want something after years of not wanting, and to know you cannot have it?

if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have no moral purpose, no real sense of duty to anything. It seems only a few months ago that I was twenty-one – full of hopes … all disappointed.

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.

When you have no future, you live in the past.

His outlook was typically one of gloom.

The Sky Lounge is not aspirational. It is desperational.

I wish you could infuse a little confidence of human nature into my heart. I cannot muster any -- the world is too brutal for me -- I am glad there is such a thing as the grave -- I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

For Sale: One heart. Horrible condition. Will take anything for it. Please. Just cut it out on my chest and end the suffering.

Suicide doesn't kill people, sadness kills them.

DEPRESSION - one word to describe a mountain of pain. One word to steal the light from a person's soul and leave them stranded in a cold, gray landscape, alone and searching for something they couldn't even name.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and its the worst.

How do I answer the question, what's wrong when nothing is right?

I hate being depressed it hurts and I hate crying and feeling sad for no reason. It feels like it'll never get better.

Sometimes giving up is the only option that you have. Because there's no reason for carrying on when you know it will result in nothing.

I wish I had the guts to walk away and forget about what we had, but I can't because I know you won't come after me and that's what hurts the most.

It just hurts so bad to know that the person you love doesn't want you, will never give you a chance, and that you never had a chance to begin with.

The worst feeling in the world is giving all the love you have and knowing it will never be returned.